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Once Upon a Time
In a recent article, I described a solution to the joint problem of inability to customize the default location of the template folder for SQL Server Management Studio and sharing of templates across machines or between team...
IT/DevConnections 2017 is in San Francisco this October 23 – 26. Over four days of in-depth training across multiple tracks you’ll have opportunities to learn from over 100 professionals who have been in your shoes over the course of...
SQL Server makes the first big step in supporting ordered set functions by introducing the long-awaited STRING_AGG function, which concatenates strings in a group based on optional desired order.
Windocks 1.0 was released in Q1 of 2016, as the first port of Docker’s open source to Windows. Some were skeptical of Windocks, as Microsoft planned an implementation for Windows Server 2016. We’re glad to have persevered, as Windocks now deliv...
Most database administrators, regardless of platform, are familiar with the concept of wait events. Wait events are a natural part of a database engine processing requests. When a connection is made to the database engine, a session ID (SPID) is...
How to Share SQL Server Management Studio Templates with Teams
Whenever I present on the subject of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) templates I inevitably get the question: “how do I share these with others on my team or between my lap...